02-08-2012
KoA' Kitchen Open Air, a project using active ceramics.
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- KoA' Kitchen Open Air, a project using active ceramics.
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Vittorio Grassi Architetto & Partners’s project was shortlisted for the Active Architecture Award (a competition intended to stimulate and promote a new way of conceiving of ecological design through use of Fiandre materials, preferably environmental-friendly ones) and has been awarded US Award second prize for Architecture and is now shortlisted for the 2012 LEAF Award.
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“KoA' Kitchen Open Air”, based on the concept of a picnic on the lawn, is part of a wider-ranging project for development of a “Pole of Excellence for technological research and innovation ” under the name Open Zone, in the town of Bresso, in Milan’s Parco Nord area.
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Based on the criteria of light weight, transparency and integration with the park around it, the building is organised on a single level raised above the ground.
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Harmonious inclusion in the landscape is matched by equally well thought-out interior design: the restaurant is characterised by choice of eco-compatible recyclable materials which are also highly resistant, from glass to steel, timber and porcelain stoneware.
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The latter, a long-lasting, easy maintenance material, is part of Fiandre’s Active Clean Air & Antibacterial CeramicTM series of anti-pollutant and anti-bacterial tiles, a concrete aid for protecting the environment with their photocatalytic properties capable of eliminating the principal pollutants in the air and a number of bacteria hazardous to human health.
Project: Vittorio Grassi Architetto & Partners, http://www.vgrassi.it/
Location: Bresso, Milan (Italy)
Photos: Enrico Cano
Drawings: Vittorio Grassi Architetto & Partners, http://www.vgrassi.it/
Links: http://www.floornature.com/architecture-news/news-active-coverings-for-the-“caterpillar”-in-bazzano-7783/
Awards: Shortlisted for the 2012 Active Architecture Award and the LEAF Awards 2012, 2nd prize at the 4th edition of US Award section Architecture, Winner of the US Award Popular Vote